At journey’s end, seated for dinner—finally!—in the elegant gardens at LongHouse in East Hampton, the reserve’s director, Matko Tomicic, recalled a quip from Henry Geldzahler, our late mutual friend, the legendary curator of modern art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

“Henry loved the idea,” recalled a smiling Tomicic, “that every rich family in Mexico had its own industry and its own museum.”

Arts patroness Beth DeWoody managed to choose a single offbeat favorite. “The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City,” she answered, referring to the wacky collection that has been described as “more P.T. Barnum than J. Paul Getty.”

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“One of my favorites,” said artist Donald Sultan, “is the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. “It’s one of the greatest collections and one of the nicest ways of looking at art of any museum in Europe.”

Back in Manhattan for Magnolia Pictures’ screening of The Queen of Versailles at the Museum of Modern Art, interior designer Antony Todd also said the Pergamon. “Each massive room is dedicated to one piece from, say, an actual Byzantine or Hellenic villa. The scale is amazing. And it is untouched since the 1940s.”

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The Inquisitive Guest also caught up with PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach. “A very impressive museum in Bogotá, Colombia, is the Gold Museum,” he said. “It’s also a history of colonialism, in a way.”

Klaus Biesenbach. Photo: Andrew Toth/PatrickMcMullan.com

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Vogue’s Hamish Bowles indicated that he had just returned from Peru. “And there is a wonderful museum there of pre-Columbian art called Museo Larco,” he said. “They have an Inca gold headdress with nose ring and earrings and necklace—it’s like a full-on Folies Bergère headdress.”

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“The National Palace Museum in Taipei is full of art that Chiang Kai-shek brought over from China during the Japanese invasion,” noted Euan Rellie, joint founder of Business Development Asia, which facilitates mergers and acquisitions between the East and West. “Better art than they have in China.”

Meanwhile, in East Hampton, George Lucas was honored by Ne-Yo’s the Compound Foundation. “I would say Bilbao,” Lucas said, referring to the extraordinary Frank Gehry–designed Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain.

“I’m in the process of building my own museum,” Lucas then revealed. “I’ll probably design it myself,” he said. “I’d like to do it in San Francisco. It’s a cultural art museum featuring illustrators, mostly Rockwell, Parrish, and N.C. Wyeth.”

At a Bally and Cinema Society screening of Killer Joe in Manhattan, Sherry Lansing, the former CEO of Paramount Pictures, said, “I was in The Hague and I saw [Vermeer’s] View of Delft at Mauritshuis, the Royal Picture Gallery. I had always wanted to see that painting in person.”

Sherry Lansing and her husband, William Friedkin. Photo: Nicholas Hunt/PatrickMcMullan.com

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Like Lucas, Roseanne Barr also aspired to found a museum. In fact, she purchased the highly eccentric Queen Liliulakalani’s Kamuela Museum in Hawaii. “And I love it,” she told AD. “It was an old museum of Hawaiian artifacts. But when I bought it, it was pretty much just a dump. I’ve totally gutted it, and I’ve started art projects in each room.”

Roseanne Barr. Photo: Nicholas Hunt/PatrickMcMullan.com

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“I remember going to the Egon Schiele Museum in Austria,” recalled actress Gina Gershon, who gives an astonishing performance in Killer Joe. “That was unbelievable. That and the Picasso Museum in Paris.”

At the New York debut of her documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, director Alison Klayman gave a nod to Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. “The modernity of it, that it’s a converted turbine hall,” she said. “It captures your imagination.”

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“I loved the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam,” added Susan Sarandon, who hosted the screening. “And in St. Pete’s in Florida, the new Dalí building is really gorgeous.”

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In the Ferrari tent at Bridgehampton Polo, the Inquisitive Guest encountered fellow AD contributor Jamee Gregory. “The Musée Nissim de Camondo in Paris,” she said. “It tells the tragic story of a family of wealthy Jewish art collectors. It’s quite moving. Not only do you see the furniture and the beautiful palazzo, but you picture what happened to them.”

“The Parrish will set a new standard—the scale, the light,” insisted artist Ross Bleckner, who hosted ACRIA’s Cocktails at Sunset at his Sagaponack home, once owned by Truman Capote. “And the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Much of the art is Scandinavian, but they also have wonderful German Expressionists, including one of my favorites, Emil Nolde.”

“The Neue Galerie,” suggested author Bob Colacello. “And the Menil Collection in Houston. The first time I saw it, I thought, ‘Is this a museum or a shack?’ It’s all clapboard with slate floors. So understated.”

At Super Saturday, an ovarian cancer fundraiser in Water Mill, designer Isaac Mizrahi claimed that he modeled his new apartment on the Neue. “I don’t have Lauder money,” he quipped. “So I had to do a cheap polyester version.”

Isaac Mizrahi. Photo: Nicholas Hunt/PatrickMcMullan.com

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“My favorite is the Menil in Houston,” chimed in Robert Wilson, who hosted the annual Watermill Center fête. “I like it because it is discreet. I like the light and the architecture.”

Architect Richard Meier, something of an authority since he designed Atlanta’s stunning High Museum of Art and Los Angeles’s Getty Center, named the Glyptothek in Munich. “It’s the experience of the architecture in relation to the art,” he explained.

And at Russell Simmons’s house in East Hampton for his annual Art for Life Foundation benefit honoring Mariah Carey, Jimmy Choo cofounder Tamara Mellon related that she had recently visited Carlos Slim’s Museo Soumaya, named after the billionaire’s late wife, in Mexico. “The structure was phenomenal,” she said of the Fernando Romero design. “And he has one the largest collections of Rodin outside of Paris, beautifully displayed.”

Tamara Mellon at the Conservatory Ball Benefit For The New York Botanical Garden. Photo: Patrick McMullan/PatrickMcMullan.com